TGR: Abuse of the Race Card: ‘Morris’ faux pas had nothing to do with race!
By Doni Morton Glover, www.bmorenews.com
(BALTIMORE – June 15, 2009) - According to The Sun, Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stated Friday on The Anthony McCarthy Show on WEAA 88.9 FM: “(Morris) is a professional. … Many of the top-level positions were created for individuals and not advertised. But we are living in a city where a brown person can’t get that treatment. If a job is created for one of us, your credentials are questioned, your background is questioned, the process is questioned,” she said.
I won’t get into Andres Alonso’s future given his faux pas last week of not properly vetting a deputy CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools position last week – a position worth $175,000 per year that was created in the worst American economic times in nearly a century.
I’m not even going to comment on Brian Morris’ blunder of incorrectly answering a pointed question from Alonso about his past/background.
Nor am I going to get into Gov. Martin O’Malley’s connection to Morris.
What does enrage me, however, is Madame President’s abuse of the race card.
We, as African Americans, have to be very careful about pulling race out in this ever-changing globalized world where – lo and behold – we have a black president.
This case clearly had nothing to do with race. Surely, positions can be created for black folks … even in Baltimore … even in 2009.
When we pull the race card for the wrong reasons, it taints the testimony of those who have actually been unfairly discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Even more, it spoils the contributions of the fallen soldiers who died to lynching, police dog attacks, fire hoses, the bullet, and the like.
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TGR: The Blizzard of 2010: 1 Down, 1 to Go!:
Welcome to Baltimore's Katrina: "Nobody hears our cry!"
A state of emergency: National Guard in hummers
By Doni Glover, www.bmorenews.com
"The same ol' story in New Orleans" - Jay Z
(BALTIMORE - February 9, 2010) - According to one Baltimore City Police officer stationed in Sandtown, downtown is plowed, Baltimore County is plowed, Carroll County is plowed (he lives there), but he didn't understand why communities - like in West Baltimore - were still left undone.
Fender-benders are not uncommon. The perpetual struggle between pedestrian rights and drivers' fear of getting stuck is ubiquitous. The question remains: Does anybody care about less affluent communities in one of the richest state's in the nation?
Yeah, yeah! We heard the governor announce there would be no additional funds for snow plowing.
Maybe we have to appeal to Pres. Barack Obama to send "state of emergency" dollars directly to municipalities ... like Baltimore. Or, maybe directly outsource dollars to snow removal companies. Whatever the case, this is some bull feces.
In a city where citizens get taxed to death for everything from parking tickets to cell phones, where is the love? Like the songwriter sings, "Ain't no love in the heart of the city!"
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In Honor of Baltimore's Black Business Week: The Ray Haysbert Awards:
(BALTIMORE - January 19, 2010) - Come out and join BMORENEWS on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at the Frederick-Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Museum as we pay homage to the Dean of Business, Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr.
We will be awarding area business owners for their accomplishments.
FMI, please call Phenomenal Events at 443.223.8759.
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Media Internships Now Available in the DMV: Do you have what it takes?:
Writers, video reporters, radio talent, and production assistants now wanted to help cover the news for one of the most accomplished independent multi-media news sites in America – primarily covering Washington DC, Baltimore City, Prince George’s, Montgomery, and Baltimore counties.
Interns will be exposed to a litany of mass communication skills including the business of media, public speaking, interviewing techniques, videography, photography and writing.
Interns will meet some of the most exciting business, political, entertainment and community professionals in the area. Equally, interns will be encouraged to teach and groom future media professionals.
FMI, call BMORENEWS’ managing partner, Another Approach Enterprises, today at 202.756.4865 to schedule an interview.
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Baltimore's Black Business Week: Minority Business Summit 2010 Speakers & Awardees Announced:
Do come out and support the Minority Business Summit. Read in Full >>
Maryland's First Class Action Suit Against St. Joseph Medical Center for Unnecessary Stent Procedures:
Murphy P.A. and the Law Offices of Peter Angelos, P.C. of Baltimore have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of patients who underwent unnecessary invasive cardiac procedures at St. Joseph Medical Center. The suit contends that Dr. Mark Midei performed hundreds, if not thousands, of unnecessary cardiac stent procedures on patients as revealed by a federal investigation. Read in Full >>
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